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- From: umcho000@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Connie Cho)
- Subject: Re: Shallowness in TLM, BATB (Was Re: Cheap Animation)
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:56:46 GMT
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- In article <42696@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> rcook@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Robert Cook) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec17.020025.18807@news2.cis.umn.edu> avatar@wings.micro.umn.edu (Timothy Fay) writes:
- >>"Kevin J. Chen" (kc2w+@andrew.cmu.edu) wrote:
- >>
- >>No, more like typical Disney meddling with the original story.
- >
- >Wasn't there once a thread about Disney's lack of originality?
- >IMHO, Disney does an admirable job of *adapting* existing stories to
- >the screen.
-
- I think they do. Some of those stories are *long*, and need a
- considerable hack job.
-
- >
- >The original Little Mermaid was pretty shallow, romance-wise. She
- >fell in love in much the same manner as Disney's Ariel. That
- >spiritual thing (an immortal soul) the mermaid also pursued probably
- >wouldn't work, in general, with modern movie audiences--Disney
- >apparently realized this.
-
- I agree. The same way that the ending of the Little Match Girl
- would probably not survive editing. Although, they did keep the
- ending in Faerie Tale Theatre's version of The Little Mermaid
- (which was savaged by some truly awful, regrettably original dialogue)
- >
- >For a fairy tale, is there really anything all that shallow about
- >Disney's Beauty and the Beast? She falls in love with Beast *before*
- >he is transformed, remember? The "handsome prince" he became is
- >virtually a necessity--it's what audiences expect. Whatever his
- >looks, he has to be human to get past that inter-species relationship
- >hurdle. Works for me! It also apparently works for the "original"
- >tales (in this case, I refer to the 18th century French versions).
- >
-
- I liked the movie a lot, though more for the visuals than the story.
- What does bother me, though , is-
- if Belle had been a grotesque hag would the Beast have
- taken one look and fled to his tower and locked himself in? With
- all these protestations about how his looks shouldn't matter, why are
- we constantly reminded about this gorgeous girl, even in her name?
- Seems a tad hyporitical. I suppose making her bookish serves as
- redemption, as does giving her a 'scientist' father.
-
- Although I suppose it would be highly depressing to have a heroine
- whose character is constantly being upheld as opposed to her looks :)
-
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